BY VANYA TANAJA
DILI — The "Draft Regulation on the Election of a Constituent Assembly to draft the Constitution of an Independent and Democratic East Timor" was presented to East Timor's National Council by the United Nations Transitional
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BY TOM FLANAGAN
SYDNEY — The case of eight stonemasons, who were kept in a barbed wire enclosure and paid $145 a month, has highlighted the exploitation of foreign workers in Australia.
The stonemasons were brought to Australia from India as
BY GRAHAM MATTHEWS
MELBOURNE — Representatives of the International Socialist Organisation, Democratic Socialist Party, Freedom Socialist Party, Workers' Liberty, Workers' Power, Socialist Democracy, the Progressive Labor Party and the Worker
BY PETER GELLERT
MEXICO CITY â The Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) is marching on Mexico City to publicise the plight of Mexico's indigenous peoples and to press its demand for adoption of the San Andres peace accords to put an end to
BY SUE BOLAND
The Democrats' leadership battle between current leader Senator Meg Lees and challenger Senator Natasha Stott Despoja was sparked by the party's poor results in the recent Western Australian and Queensland state elections where they
CFMEU secures workers entitlements
SYDNEY — Sub-contractors working on luxury units at a Newport marina will be paid their entitlements despite their employer, Horvat Construction, leaving unpaid debts after going into voluntary liquidation.
BY NORM DIXON
Following the lead of Brazil and South Africa, Kenya announced on March 6 that it plans to relax its patent laws to enable its population to buy cheaper drugs to fight HIV/AIDS.
Health minister Sam Ongeri said he would introduce a
BY TOM WILSON
The Native Forests Network recently conducted a bus tour of the old growth forests of Tasmania's Huon Valley. This was their response to Forestry Tasmania's advertising blitz which urged people to "gather as much information as
BY NORM DIXON
"I want someone to explain to me why it isn't called murder", said Stephen Lewis, former deputy director of the United Nations Children's Fund, in an article in the January 26 Toronto Globe and Mail. Lewis was commenting on the fact
BY CHRIS LATHAM & PIP HINMAN
On February 20 the "cease-fire" between the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) and the Indonesian military (TNI) was extended for the third time since the so-called humanitarian pause in 2000. These declarations mean nothing,
The real power in global financial markets rests with "institutional investors", the professional speculators:
Commercial banks: The traditional big boys of the financial world, commercial banks' basic business is retail: to pay depositors less
Photo by Gail Lord.
On March 7 bus loads of members of the Worker Communist Party of Iraq,
the Worker Communist Party of Iran and their supporters held demonstrations
outside the Iraqi and Iranian embassies in Canberra. The
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